Briton in Central Park sex attack wins £80,000 payout

The Telegraph ^ | 19/07/2004 | A.N.Other

[ijcr]

This woman is braver than any NYPD officer that stood and watched.

[wrathof59]

Notice that this account does not even address thate fact that the 15 punks were never found or held accountable, the author does not even consider them to be of any concern to the story.

[RockinRight]

So what did they do to the perpetrators??? Anything short of hanging them by their testicles and beating them is insufficient...

[Slings and Arrows]

If she'd gone to court she'd've gotten zip - numerous precedents say that the police have no duty to protect any individual. Of course, in NYC it's almost impossible to legally carry a handgun, so those individuals are perfectly safe. < /sarcasm>

[Paleo Conservative]

When I read the headline, I was afraid it was the perpetrator who won the £80,000. Too bad she was't allowed to carry a gun.

[Guillermo]

Well, any attempt to hold them accountable would be derided as racist and xenophobic.

After all, it was the horrible conditions in Imperialist America that determined their behavior.

[July 4th]

she and her two friends had gone to the parade while on holiday in the city because it had been billed as a "good family outing".

Whoever billed the Puerto Rican Day parade in NYC as a "good family outing" should be sued for reckless endangerment.

[luvbach1]

NYPD was paralyzed by PC that day.

[SpyGuy]

Sources close to the legal cases have suggested police were ordered to take a "softly softly" approach to Puerto Rican revellers [sic] during the parade, for fears of being branded racist.

This is the legacy of political correctness. And instead of catching and prosecuting the attackers AS WELL AS charging the police leadership with criminal negligence for their political policies, we the taxpayers are the ones punished by being forced to pay restitution to the victims.

[OldFriend]

Without a doubt a disgraceful chapter in Puerto Rican Day Parade history.

Nothing can mitigate the harm they did to the innocent victims, their own reputation or the reputation of the police officers who stood by and did nothing.

[proxy_user]

They all went to jail for 1-3 years. The women who won the settlement identified five of them in court. I think a total of forty or fifty guys got a good stretch in the can. A few may have escaped, but not as many as you think. Once the police woke up, they acted aggressively.

[sauropod]

Ahh yes. The Puerto Rican parade. My favorite march in NYC.
/s

[cyborg]

Good glad she won.

[Happygal]

When I was in NYC, I ended up in Greenwich village when Wigstock was going on!

No fear of me getting attacked though.
Unless a beaded handbag went out of control! ;-)

[TheCrusader]

"She said her friends begged for help from a police officer 75ft away from the attack but the officer said he "could not leave his post".

I trust that she's telling the truth. The new-age mentality of 'law enforcement' is to do nothing until backup arrives and "the peremiter is secure". How long did a small army of police mill around Columbine before going in to help anyone? This is their new training, don't do anything util everything is secure. If they're so worried about their own safety then why not procure a more appropriate job, like Librarian?

[TheCrusader]

"Once the police woke up, they acted aggressively."

LOL

[TheCrusader]

"Once the police woke up, they acted aggressively."

LOL

[Docbarleypop]

Librarian??? then you need to worry about your toes being sucked!

[theDentist]

As I recall, a mighty scowling slap on the wrists were applied.

[mrustow]

If she'd gone to court she'd've gotten zip - numerous precedents say that the police have no duty to protect any individual. Of course, in NYC it's almost impossible to legally carry a handgun, so those individuals are perfectly safe. < /sarcasm>

Exactimiento. The city could have gotten a summary dismissal. That they did not, may come back to haunt them. The claim that the polaintifdfs wcould have gotten millions form a jury verdict, is just one example of his/her/its incompetence.

Sources close to the legal cases have suggested police were ordered to take a "softly softly" approach to Puerto Rican revellers during the parade, for fears of being branded racist.

Here, the reporer tries to sound like he/she/it has access to deep "sources," when anyone who read newspaper reports from the time knows that dozens of cops told the Daily News and the Post that they were ordered not to do their jobs as regards blacks and Hispanics.